David Staples: B.C.’s safer supply of opioids has failed to cut drug deaths, seen increase in drug poisonings

The promise of the “safer supply” program in British Columbia was that it would cut down on opioid overdoses, but so far the opposite has happened.

The first major study comparing population-level results of British Columbia’s approach with that of other Canadian provinces has found “a significant increase in opioid-related poisoning hospitalizations.”